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Bord à bord : Art écologique & art environmental

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Les Carnets du paysage présentent un dossier autour de la question de l’art écologique, plus précisément de la manière dont certains artistes contemporains en Amérique du Nord ont développé leur travail autour et à partir de la question de la nature et de sa préservation. Les artistes dont on présente le travail dans ce numéro travaillent avec des matériaux naturels, comme la terre, les roches, le bois, l’eau. Disposant parfois de vastes espaces, ils essaient d’en explorer les possibilités en prenant la terre elle-même comme élément et comme surface d’inscription. Ce numéro rassemble des analyses et des textes d’artistes, d’intellectuels et d’écrivains qui ont en commun de réfléchir à et d’agir sur ce que nous pouvons appeler notre environnement, notre œkoumène, bref la Terre, que nous ne savons peut-être plus vraiment habiter. Tout n’est pas paysage, mais le paysage est concerné par des questions qui touchent à la nature, à l’espace, à la représentation, à l’écologie, aux usages des éléments et des matières, à la poétique des formes. C’est cette dimension de l’identité du paysage que les Carnets tentent d’explorer dans ce numéro.

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Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere

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Robert Smithson (1938–1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In "Robert Smithson", Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson’s work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson’s widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson’s working life--magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library--from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson’s art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. A central focus of Reynolds’s analysis is Smithson’s fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again, alone and with fellow artists, to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was "elsewhere"; but for Smithson, "elsewheres" were the defining, if often forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.

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Overlook : exploring the internal fringes of America with the Center for land use interpretation

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The Center for land use interpretation is a research-based educational organization that produces public programs about the built landscape of the United States from its sites in Los Angeles, Utah and the Mojave desert, with an upstate New York location opening in 2006. The Center’s aim is to increase and diffuse information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived. Recent examples of their work include a two-day "Tour of the monuments of the great American void" by bus and the exhibit "Immersed remains: towns submerged in America". This book takes readers on a tour through the strangely unfamiliar land that Americans live in, demonstrating that we can understand ourselves by examining the clues on display all around us, often clearly visible but ignored. Each chapter explores a different topic, from an in-depth look at Ohio ("the most all-American state"); through scale shifts in model landscapes, exemplified in the three largest hydraulic models in the world; and law-enforcement training environments that "simulate" public space. Readers can dive into the hidden and enchanting world of show caves, where America is on display underground; and come up into the Great Basin, a zone covering most of Nevada, and portions of Utah, California, Oregon, Idaho and Mexico, whose network of watersheds has no outlet to the ocean. Following lines and edges, through cities, suburbs, small towns and wide-open spaces, the Center guides us upstream, toward the heart of another America - the same, but different.

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Natural magic: The art of Partick Dougherty

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Chapel Hill-based Patrick Dougherty is known for his enchanting, site-specific sculptural installations composed of huge, hanging, nestlike forms. This volume documents several exhibitions, highlighting the collaborative process of creating major installations, and the eventual, natural demise of Dougherty's unique sculptures.

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Richard Long: selected statements & interviews

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This book gathers together a selection of Long's statements and interviews from 1971 through 2006. Published alongside black-and-white reproductions of his works, many of the texts have been unavailable for years. Also included are an early interview from 1971, published for the first time in English, and a previously unpublished conversation with Michael Auping, Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. These seminal texts are invaluable for an understanding of the rich and complex implications of Long's work.

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Ends of the earth: Land art to 1974

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The illustrated catalogue documents the history of Land art from its emergence during the early 1960s through 1974. A companion volume to the first large-scale exhibition on Land art, this book traces the emergence of the artistic impulses to use the earth as material, land as medium, and to locate works in remote sites, beyond familiar art contexts.

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The last freedom : from the pioneers of land art in the 60's to nature in cyberspace

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This book considers the development of Land Art from the 1960s to the present, charting its earliest expressions among those New York artists who made the genre's earliest masterpieces in the wide-open expanses of the west to recent manifestations with young artists manipulating the artificial world of cyberspace. Exploring historical positions and material approaches with the aid of sketches, artifacts, documents, models, photographs and film, and focusing mainly on achievements in America and Europe, the publication includes work by seminal as well as emerging figures operating in the extended field: Adam Berg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Agnes Denes, Florian Dombois, Walter de Maria, Toshikatsu Endo, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Richard Long, Glenn Marshall, Robert Morris, David Nash, Dennis Oppenheim, Jaume Plensa, Charles Ross, Robert Smithson and James Turrell.

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Nancy Holt: Sightlines

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This book and companion book to the exhibition of the same name, is the first comprehensive study of Nancy Holt. Holt's wide-ranging body of work beginning in the late 1960s includes land art--particularly the monumental Sun Tunnels (1973-1976)--major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video. Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of authors--including Lucy Lippard, Matthew Coolidge, and Pamela M. Lee--chart the artist's fascinating trajectory and take us from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to the culmination of her development of major site interventions and freestanding environmental sculpture.

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Landraum: Beyond rural design

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Rural space is something of a blank spot on the map of contemporary architecture. Led by Matthias Reichenbach-Klinke and his colleagues at the Chair of Planning and Construction, Landraum proposes research projects and artistic interventions in rural areas.

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Stickwork

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Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. This publication features thirty-eight of his organic, dynamic works that twist the line between architecture, landscape, and art. Constructed on-site using locally sourced materials and local volunteer labor, Dougherty's sculptures are tangles of twigs and branches that have been transformed into something unexpected and wild, elegant and artful, and often humorous.